Chinese email doesn't work in VM

This bug report will be sent to the XEmacs Development Team, not to your local site managers!! Please write in English, because the XEmacs maintainers do not have translators to read other languages for them. In XEmacs 21.4 (patch 4) "Artificial Intelligence" [Lucid] (i386-debian-linux, M ule) of Mon Jul 30 2001 on eeyore configured using `configure --with-sound=native,esd '--cflags=-O2 -g -Wall ' --w ith-x11 --extra-verbose --with-site-lisp --statedir=/var/lib --infodir=/usr/shar e/info/xemacs-21.4.4 --prefix=/usr --error-checking=none --debug=no --dynamic -- without-postgresql --with-gpm=no --with_menubars=lucid --with_scrollbars=lucid - -with_dialogs=athena --docdir=/usr/lib/xemacs-21.4.4/i386-debian-linux/mule/ --w ith-mule --with-canna=no --with-wnn=no --with-xim=xlib --with-xfs '--package-pat h=~/.xemacs:~/.xemacs/packages::/usr/share/xemacs21/packages:/usr/share/xemacs21 /mule-packages:/usr/share/xemacs21/site-packages' i386-debian-linux' Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug and the precise symptoms of the bug: Chinese messages (in either GB-2312 or Big5 character sets) sent from the mail program VM do not display correctly in other mailers, and Chinese messages in the GB-2312 character set are not displayed by VM (although Big5 messages display OK). The problem appears to be due to the default values of the variables vm-mime-mule-charset-to-charset-alist and vm-mime-mule-charset-to-coding-alist. I have found by experiment that adding the following lines to my .emacs will work around the problem: (remassoc 'chinese-gb2312 vm-mime-mule-charset-to-charset-alist) (add-to-list 'vm-mime-mule-charset-to-charset-alist '(chinese-gb2312 "gb2312")) (add-to-list 'vm-mime-mule-charset-to-charset-alist '(chinese-big5-1 "big5")) (add-to-list 'vm-mime-mule-charset-to-charset-alist '(chinese-big5-2 "big5")) (add-to-list 'vm-mime-mule-charset-to-coding-alist '("gb2312" gb2312)) Looking at the value of vm-mime-mule-charset-to-charset-alist, it seems that a couple of other languages (e.g. Thai) won't display properly either, but I haven't tried this. Recent keystrokes: down down d d # up up up down down down q q C-k C-k C-k C-k down down down down down button1 button1up up up C-k C-k C-k C-k C-k down C-k down C-SPC C-end C-w M-x m a i l RET s s b 2 2 down L a b SPC s t u f f down down down down down down down C-y C-SPC C-end C-w C-home down down C-k C-k C-k C-k C-k C-c C-c BS b u s SPC p a s s ; SPC b u t t SPC c a r d misc-u ser Recent messages (most recent first): Loading emacsbug...done Loading emacsbug... Sending...done Sending... Wrote /home/ssb22/INBOX Saving... Stuffing attributes... Quitting... Loading vm-virtual...done Loading vm-virtual... -- Silas S Brown, St John's College Cambridge UK http://www.cus.cam.ac.uk/~ssb22 Replace nospam with ssb22 to reply by email "What is now proved was once only imagined" - William Blake